-family transfers and education. We highlight an education motive for remittances, according to which migrants have an incentive to … constraints are binding and education is fostered by migrant remittances. We test these hypotheses on Indian panel data …. Identification is based on within variation in household composition. We find that remittances received from migrants significantly …

Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between … remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in … particular how local financial sector development influences a country's capacity to take advantage of remittances Using a newly …

home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an … home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large …

remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information … on source countries of remittances and regional variation in the availability of bank offices that function as formal …

In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After … addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some … remittances by the household lifts budget constraints and raises the children's likelihood of being schooled, the disruptive …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … attachment to the household would be more inclined to remit money home. Therefore, remittances can be seen as a proxy for the …

migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …

, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …